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Greene offers bill to abolish Section 230
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday is introducing a bill to abolish Section 230 — the law the protects online platforms from liability — on the heels of Twitter accepting Elon Musk's offer to buy the company and take it private.
Greene's bill would eliminate the law making online platforms not liable for content posted by third parties and replace it with a provision to require "reasonable, non-discriminatory access to online communications platforms" through a "common carrier" framework that Greene compared to airlines or package delivery services.
Republicans have long claimed that social media platforms have an anti-conservative bias, pointing to tweets that have been taken down and the removal of entire feeds from networks.
[....] Titled the 21st Century FREE Speech Act, Greene's measure will serve as the House version of a Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.).
To combat the alleged bias against conservatives, it would prevent online communications platforms from exerting "undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, class of persons, political or religious group or affiliation, or locality" and would provide consumers a mechanism to sue for violations.
Should any platform be liable for someone else's speech? Even if they engage in moderation?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @08:48AM (2 children)
And then doxxing, harrassment, shock content, CSAM, malware, and all the rest gets to come along for the ride. No, the companies would do the complete opposite to what you envision.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @09:15AM (1 child)
Then other companies, and distributed solutions, will come and take the place of the suicided dinosaurs. A double win.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @04:54PM
^ this is the level of deluded stupidity you get with any "true faith" believers. "The free market will fix everything" they say, because figuring out the details and factors of human economic markets is REALLY fucking hard. So you get nonsense that entrenches the big players and sounds good to the unwashed masses who believe some hard work and being smart will be totally rewarded in the free market "meritocracy." Not even working examples of ither methods, like universal healthcare in so many countries, can convince these yahoos.